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SI AIMS Conference Nelson 2017

Nelson Intermediate School

 Impressive Mihi Whakatau.   Lots of heart in the school and loads of pride.
Large number of refugee from places such as Myanmar and Bhutan. (Traumatised).
Drift bikes at break times available for children.    Dog training going on (teacher's dog).   Bike able to be ridden around the school at breaks also.
Theme - World on a Plate.   Across all Tech areas and back into classes with Inquiry focus for the term.   In workshop - making all sorts of functional things related to food (Yr 7s wooden spoons, salad servers, Yr8 cheese boards, chopping boards, wooden serving trays).
Complex behaviour issues.   Sadly two exclusions.     Constant negative behaviour of two children having a wide spread affect on the culture of the school.   Struggling to manage complexity of this.




Broadgreen Intermediate School

Principal is leading the CoL.   Clear transition with obvious contributors and one main college across the road.    Shared Principalship model.
Ontop: teaching basic pro social skills.   PB4L school last five years - looking at a refresh of this next year.   Struggling to make complexity of behavioural issues.
Some classrooms have been refurbished.   Still single cell.   Mixed furniture.
Waimea Intermediate School

Restorative Practices.
Staff bikes for playground duty.
Great enviro/playground/fitness circuit all in one, incorporating stream into this.
Fridays - Homeroom.    Assembly.   Three modules.   Sport across the school.
Check and connect mentoring (Chris - Tech teacher)
Focusing on teaching prosocial behaviours.    Large number of complex children in last five years.
Interesting Tech spaces all linked around central electronics area.   Strong tech team - children working across contexts.   Careers display in Tech centre.






Victory Boxing Non Charitable Trust

The programme is open to children aged 8-18. It provides the opportunity for young boys and girls to train under the respectful, caring, honest and responsible guidance of Victory Boxing.
Victory Boxing encourages our kids to have a healthy, well balanced diet. Before each training session a range of fresh fruit and water is supplied. Victory boxing has goals to expand in the area of nutritional education.

http://www.victoryboxing.org.nz/

My reflections:
Could be useful for our staff to visit Waimea Intermediate Tech team.

 Provocation - has our constant drive on our values and inclusive practices, led us to almost normalise unacceptable behaviour in the interest of focusing on wellbeing/inclusion first?   When is enough enough ???   Where do you draw the line?

 Time to review our BOP programme - rethink as a series of modules perhaps?   Friday focus for these things ?
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